Rutherfords Alpha Scattering Experiment
Before Rutherford’s experiment, the atom was thought to be a ‘plum pudding’—a blob of positive charge with electrons dotted within, like raisins in a pudding. This model was proposed by J.J. Thomson, who had discovered the electron but couldn’t quite figure out how the positive charge was distributed. Ernest Rutherford, intrigued by the structure of … Read more